Shine America’s Franklin returning to Australia

Paul Franklin, Shine America's EVP of programming, will be returning to Shine Australia in February 2015 as director of content.

Paul Franklin, executive vice president of programming for Shine America, is headed back to Shine Australia as director of content.

Commencing February 2015, Franklin will work in tandem with Shine Australia’s director of programming Peter Newman to oversee a portion of the division’s unscripted and scripted programming. He will report to Shine Australia joint CEOs Mark and Carl Fennessy.

It’s Franklin’s second tenure with Shine Australia: he was the company’s head of programming in 2010, before being appointed Shine America’s EVP of programming in 2012.